I didn't include them, because many of them were not multi-tasking systems, Windows 3.1 I wouldn't call a multi-tasking system either, they may support multi-applications, but not multi-tasking.
The fondness for Windows 10 of lack of, is mostly due the UI overall that they did in Window 8. Windows 95-7. Had minor updates to its UI off the same design (Start button, menu) model. The Tile Interface, really doesn't work for a Desktop Environment. Its reliance on the search feature to navigate beyond the most common items is a big change too.
We still operate on an innocent until proven guilty mindset. A concern that a paying customer is misusing the data, doesn't mean they have proof that they are misusing the data. Not Facebooks biggest mistake was just not digging further to find proof, but just reporting a general "Concern"
If you are going to pay millions of dollars for an Aircraft it would make sense that you as the customer do some research on what features you will need. Really a company cannot win, if Boeing sold the plain at full cost with all the bells and whistles, there will be people angry because people paid money for features they do not want (For example read Slashdot comments about how Windows 10 automatic updates happen) and often will want it disabled. Because their government doesn't require it, and they figure the trade-off is more expensive then its benefit. So Boeing having a large customer base, in general makes its sales more flexible. Because you are not going to have a Sticker Price on a multi-million dollar aircraft, there is a complex business relationship that goes on, determine what they need what they don't. This isn't a last minute, oh by the way for an extra 100k we can enable this software feature, like a car sales man tries to add in rust protection to your car.
If you are going to go retro, we should use the unofficial terms of storage. How many football fields filled with sets of encyclopedia can it hold. (BTW the answer is about 5000 football fields of Encyclopedia Britannica.)
Well their marketing department wanted to make their data center seem like a big deal where it probably is just a computer hooked up to a couple SAN Array. 418 Terabytes isn't that much data. My workplace has double that, and we one normally serve people within 100 miles of our headquarters. It is common for a PCs or even a Laptops to have terabytes of storage on it. Having a data center pointing out that they have the storage of a few hundred computers isn't really that impressive. Especially due to the fact that other smaller organizations have much larger storage requirements.
I am not sure if PC computing history went a different direction things would be any better.
Lets go back to the 1980's PC Market. IBM (IBM Compatibles) had MSDOS Apple Used Basic, with self booting floppies. Commodore 64 was basic, with "self booting" cartridges. TRS-80 with TRSDOS
In general all these early systems were so primitive and designed for single use The UNIX, VMS and other Mainframe OS's were just to system intensive to run on these early PC's to be affordable for a normal middle class family to own. These Early PC OS's had a few commands, and mostly just populated RAM in its executable sections with the program code, and pointed the program counter to that location.
These all these early PC OS's are acceptable to viruses. Now the MSDOS system because of the PC Compatible market, and with a legal loophole IBM had. Created a Generation of software build around MSDOS Compatibility Up to Windows ME. Because these OS's needed to be backwards compatible with older software, they kepts on hacking and tricking the DOS Environment to keep working. The NT Kernel got rid of a lot of the DOS code, but still had limited compatibility, which still lead to security problems. But the problems moved from easy virus code, to problems with access and authentication, mainly because Multi-tasking, Multi-User OS's was a new thing for the home User, and the fact that software can run in the background without a UI is possible, making it a problem.
I can see this problem happening over and over again with different vendors being king. There is little chance, a successful PC back in the 1980s will run a UNIX system, and in the 1990's when they could run a Unix or Linux system, they would break compatibility and decades of purchased software.
Most of the Microsoft Architectural problems have been fixed for a while. The biggest problem was the MSDOS based versions of Windows ending with Windows ME. Once Microsoft started taking security seriously and getting away from the idea that the End User is trusted enough to make good security decisions. Things have gotten much better. But the biggest problem with Microsoft in terms of Security is just how many people are using their system. If you wanted to make a Spam Bot, or infect a system on an open network, you would probably target a windows system, As chances are there will be someone running one directly hooked to their cable modem somewhere. Wide open, Logged in as Admin,
I remember back in the day when Amazon was an Online Book Store. A great tool, to buy college textbooks at a price much cheaper then what the college book store sold them for, if you were really lucky you can find a GASP! Paperback version of the book, for a fraction of the cost of the hard cover.
Then they sold book related products, and went to electronics.
The real problem, isn't Facebook, but all the other companies, that have our info also stored unencrypted.
Most software are built by beginning programmers, fresh out of school on their first job. You will be lucky if the classes taught would include SQL databases, and most of them will shy away from teaching security practices, I think partially because they don't want to teach the next generation of hackers. But Almost every time, me as someone with a few decades of experience work with these developers, I need to get them to think in terms of security. Sanitize data to prevent SQL injection (On the server side!) Actively clear out any sensitive data (such as passwords) from RAM after authenticated. What Salting and Peppering means, and how to use it. Do not store password as freetext, The value of secure hashing.
I will often get in arguments with them, because I need them to think of scenarios where the product/site has already been compromised, and how to mitigated further damage. Yes, I do trust our Networking and Firewall team, but that isn't the point there still may be a way in, and we need to protect what we have.
Many newer games have an online portion to them, where you play with or against other people. In what you call Modding is what we call cheating. So that skin you use on your game, which happens to make my character appear as bright orange, in a dark area, just makes it easier for you to target and shoot me. Or custom functions that makes a complex action in the game a simple action to you. Say when you are out of Ammo on one gun, it will find you next powerful and fastest gun with Ammo and switch to that. These are things you can do to cheat, that the server wouldn't be able to figure out, like with some other cheats in the past, where characters were invulnerable, or run faster then normal. Where server analytics can find them.
The reason why the Tex-colectors are stumped by Google. Is because they follow the local laws to the letter witch allows for loopholes around the tax code.
YEA! I want apple to Allow apps, that can change the configuration of my phone and change embedded security settings!
Oh wait... I don't
I want trust of Apps on the App store will work on my phone and not damage my experience with it. This is a phone device which is always on connected to often an insecure network. I am actually surprised that there hasn't been a major iPhone vulnerability that was widely taken advantage of. I expect it is partially due to Apple Strict App store policy.
However if I need to do real work, and run real programs, I do it on my PC not my phone.
there is also aspects of depth and how the texture would function in the context, I was impressed to see the waterfall rendered vs some weird river, And the tree being placed on the right spot on the hill vs just cutting down into the edge.
I see this type of technology akin to MIDI. A 3d Model normally takes a lot of space for instructions and a lot of the work is repetitive, and a lot of detail work, that will take a lot of storage and time, work on. Just like how MIDI, has the instrument sounds already programmed, and we can just pass the note of the song to the MIDI player, meaning you have have a full score in Kilobytes of data, vs. Megabtyes per minute.
This demo, is using life like textures, because a 2d version will very from the artiest styles. As 2d Animation very on the amount of shading, the type of borders (inking), degrees of exaggeration. Think a 1940 Disney Film background vs Say Bobs Burger or Ren and Stimpy
So by not generalizing and giving examples, such as skilled labor getting laid off from a company after working there for 30 years, just so they can bring in 12 more unionized employees. Or negotiation to get rid of the IT Staff from a company, so the can bring in more unionized labors. But then I am just giving Anecdotal evidence. I have seen companies getting unionized. Where they had problems before, but after the unionization the problems didn't go away but they amplified, rises in Salary went mostly to Union Dues. Safe jobs became at risk. Any problems with the Union has to be spoken in hush tones, otherwise you are considered a Union Buster!
American Unions are not like German Unions, right now American Unions are a shady organization, who are running off an old mind set.
It is both. There is a problem with the 737 Max 8, because it is putting the airplane in bad state. Such conditions shouldn't be the case. While a pilot manually can make split second decisions, the onboard computer suppose to do split microsecond decisions. This flaw is making the computer to make a bad decision. Now that stated, you NEVER PUT FULL FAITH IN A COMPUTER. When there is a problem, you should know how to force override the computer in a moment and take over, once you feel uncomfortable about the computer decision.
My work environment which isn't as fast pace as flying an aircraft has downtime procedures, for nearly all the IT Functions, in case the software doesn't work. When the software doesn't work, there is an IT Problem that needs to be fixed, however the people we support, still need to do their job, and cannot excuse the computers being down for not doing their work.
The VPN is ad free, the browser isn't. I was happy with Opera Mobile for a while, until an upgrade put a "News" Screen that I couldn't disable. This "News" Screen was populated with click-bait articles, which I would expect are full of Ad's that I am willing to bet Opera got some cut on the action. I am actually surprised that Opera is still in the business. From its early days of being a fast and light browser which may had gained some traction if it were free to most users, and later versions which were Ad Supported, filled up a lot of your screen, imagine on a 640x480 screen having 1/4 of the screen filled with ads.
The problem is the problems of today are not the problems a hundred years ago, however, the Unions are structure roughly the same way. 100 years ago most communities were centered around one or two factories. People had limited transportation available to them, the idea of transporting from one town to the next one 10 miles away was a big deal. So you worked for the company, lived in company housing (which your rent came out of your pay), having to buy food at the company store. If you got injured and couldn't work, you have lost your job and your access to housing and the company store, which is a big part of the community you lived in. In short, the company owned you, and you were really one step above being a slave. Today (and thanks to the effort of these unions of the past) The conditions are now much different, we have the ability to find work in different towns and cities, even go across states for commuting isn't unheard of. There is a social safety net where there are unemployment payments where you can pay you enough to keep your home for a while, where you can find another job. However, Unions play on the idea that you are stuck to your job. Where today being stuck, just means, we don't want to risk getting another job. But It is a different environment. While today's economy and the workers need support in negotiating with the company, today's Unions are seeming more fixed on gaining a power base, then actually helping the employees with useful things like wage parity, health care, benefits.
For most people maxing everything is going to be a waste of money. You may need to Max out on RAM, or get a Top video card, But maxing everything is just Luxary and bragging rights, and nearly every professional will not be fully utilizing everything, as every professional has their specialty and uses the computer differently.
I already use 32gigs on my laptop, for my servers I am happy with 128gigs.
Now why so much where we could had nearly the same type of work 20 years ago with 1/1000 of the resource?
While there is some bloat, there is the annoying factor of security being a big concern, Back 20 years ago, shared memory was common, no sandboxes, if you keep on moving your pointer values you will finally run into some other line of ram for an other system. Today we have sandboxes and virtualization, for added levels of protection, to make sure App 1 will not overwrite App 2.
Also I want to point out on How stupid it is to point out on the max cost of the product, when you go and select the top of everything in the customize bucket. Most people won't need the max spec, but the system is designed to handle the max spec, for that small handful of people who need it. For most Professional that 15k investment is probably better served with getting a 3k system every 5 years for 25 years.
This is assuming you are managing a project with a Start, Middle and an End. While the Build Team gets all the credit, the maintenance teams, will often have a lot of sub projects that they need to work on to keep the project up to date, fix problems, and add things that are needed. Often this will require more projects, and many that don't need to be viable to everyone.
Besides the Slashdot hate on Windows. OS X, Linux and Windows when upgraded and properly maintained, are all rather secure, reliable and works well. Yes, Windows is heavy handed with the users, with forced upgrades, and Linux sometimes works like a hodgepodge of ideas, that got release after they had a clean compile.
But I haven't gotten BSOD, Kernel Panics, or the Gray screen of failure. In a while unless I am doing something really stupid anyways. Or I have failing hardware.
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I didn't include them, because many of them were not multi-tasking systems, Windows 3.1 I wouldn't call a multi-tasking system either, they may support multi-applications, but not multi-tasking.
The fondness for Windows 10 of lack of, is mostly due the UI overall that they did in Window 8. Windows 95-7. Had minor updates to its UI off the same design (Start button, menu) model. The Tile Interface, really doesn't work for a Desktop Environment. Its reliance on the search feature to navigate beyond the most common items is a big change too.
We still operate on an innocent until proven guilty mindset.
A concern that a paying customer is misusing the data, doesn't mean they have proof that they are misusing the data. Not Facebooks biggest mistake was just not digging further to find proof, but just reporting a general "Concern"
If you are going to pay millions of dollars for an Aircraft it would make sense that you as the customer do some research on what features you will need.
Really a company cannot win, if Boeing sold the plain at full cost with all the bells and whistles, there will be people angry because people paid money for features they do not want (For example read Slashdot comments about how Windows 10 automatic updates happen) and often will want it disabled. Because their government doesn't require it, and they figure the trade-off is more expensive then its benefit.
So Boeing having a large customer base, in general makes its sales more flexible. Because you are not going to have a Sticker Price on a multi-million dollar aircraft, there is a complex business relationship that goes on, determine what they need what they don't. This isn't a last minute, oh by the way for an extra 100k we can enable this software feature, like a car sales man tries to add in rust protection to your car.
If you are going to go retro, we should use the unofficial terms of storage. How many football fields filled with sets of encyclopedia can it hold. (BTW the answer is about 5000 football fields of Encyclopedia Britannica.)
Well their marketing department wanted to make their data center seem like a big deal where it probably is just a computer hooked up to a couple SAN Array.
418 Terabytes isn't that much data. My workplace has double that, and we one normally serve people within 100 miles of our headquarters.
It is common for a PCs or even a Laptops to have terabytes of storage on it. Having a data center pointing out that they have the storage of a few hundred computers isn't really that impressive. Especially due to the fact that other smaller organizations have much larger storage requirements.
I am not sure if PC computing history went a different direction things would be any better.
Lets go back to the 1980's PC Market.
IBM (IBM Compatibles) had MSDOS
Apple Used Basic, with self booting floppies.
Commodore 64 was basic, with "self booting" cartridges.
TRS-80 with TRSDOS
In general all these early systems were so primitive and designed for single use The UNIX, VMS and other Mainframe OS's were just to system intensive to run on these early PC's to be affordable for a normal middle class family to own. These Early PC OS's had a few commands, and mostly just populated RAM in its executable sections with the program code, and pointed the program counter to that location.
These all these early PC OS's are acceptable to viruses. Now the MSDOS system because of the PC Compatible market, and with a legal loophole IBM had. Created a Generation of software build around MSDOS Compatibility Up to Windows ME. Because these OS's needed to be backwards compatible with older software, they kepts on hacking and tricking the DOS Environment to keep working. The NT Kernel got rid of a lot of the DOS code, but still had limited compatibility, which still lead to security problems. But the problems moved from easy virus code, to problems with access and authentication, mainly because Multi-tasking, Multi-User OS's was a new thing for the home User, and the fact that software can run in the background without a UI is possible, making it a problem.
I can see this problem happening over and over again with different vendors being king. There is little chance, a successful PC back in the 1980s will run a UNIX system, and in the 1990's when they could run a Unix or Linux system, they would break compatibility and decades of purchased software.
Most of the Microsoft Architectural problems have been fixed for a while. The biggest problem was the MSDOS based versions of Windows ending with Windows ME.
Once Microsoft started taking security seriously and getting away from the idea that the End User is trusted enough to make good security decisions. Things have gotten much better.
But the biggest problem with Microsoft in terms of Security is just how many people are using their system. If you wanted to make a Spam Bot, or infect a system on an open network, you would probably target a windows system, As chances are there will be someone running one directly hooked to their cable modem somewhere. Wide open, Logged in as Admin,
I remember back in the day when Amazon was an Online Book Store. A great tool, to buy college textbooks at a price much cheaper then what the college book store sold them for, if you were really lucky you can find a GASP! Paperback version of the book, for a fraction of the cost of the hard cover.
Then they sold book related products, and went to electronics.
The real problem, isn't Facebook, but all the other companies, that have our info also stored unencrypted.
Most software are built by beginning programmers, fresh out of school on their first job. You will be lucky if the classes taught would include SQL databases, and most of them will shy away from teaching security practices, I think partially because they don't want to teach the next generation of hackers. But Almost every time, me as someone with a few decades of experience work with these developers, I need to get them to think in terms of security.
Sanitize data to prevent SQL injection (On the server side!)
Actively clear out any sensitive data (such as passwords) from RAM after authenticated.
What Salting and Peppering means, and how to use it.
Do not store password as freetext,
The value of secure hashing.
I will often get in arguments with them, because I need them to think of scenarios where the product/site has already been compromised, and how to mitigated further damage. Yes, I do trust our Networking and Firewall team, but that isn't the point there still may be a way in, and we need to protect what we have.
Many newer games have an online portion to them, where you play with or against other people. In what you call Modding is what we call cheating. So that skin you use on your game, which happens to make my character appear as bright orange, in a dark area, just makes it easier for you to target and shoot me. Or custom functions that makes a complex action in the game a simple action to you. Say when you are out of Ammo on one gun, it will find you next powerful and fastest gun with Ammo and switch to that.
These are things you can do to cheat, that the server wouldn't be able to figure out, like with some other cheats in the past, where characters were invulnerable, or run faster then normal. Where server analytics can find them.
The reason why the Tex-colectors are stumped by Google. Is because they follow the local laws to the letter witch allows for loopholes around the tax code.
YEA! I want apple to Allow apps, that can change the configuration of my phone and change embedded security settings!
Oh wait... I don't
I want trust of Apps on the App store will work on my phone and not damage my experience with it. This is a phone device which is always on connected to often an insecure network. I am actually surprised that there hasn't been a major iPhone vulnerability that was widely taken advantage of. I expect it is partially due to Apple Strict App store policy.
However if I need to do real work, and run real programs, I do it on my PC not my phone.
being that it replaced a handful of colors, I expect colors that it doesn't recognize will be ignored or replaced.
there is also aspects of depth and how the texture would function in the context, I was impressed to see the waterfall rendered vs some weird river, And the tree being placed on the right spot on the hill vs just cutting down into the edge.
I see this type of technology akin to MIDI. A 3d Model normally takes a lot of space for instructions and a lot of the work is repetitive, and a lot of detail work, that will take a lot of storage and time, work on.
Just like how MIDI, has the instrument sounds already programmed, and we can just pass the note of the song to the MIDI player, meaning you have have a full score in Kilobytes of data, vs. Megabtyes per minute.
This demo, is using life like textures, because a 2d version will very from the artiest styles. As 2d Animation very on the amount of shading, the type of borders (inking), degrees of exaggeration. Think a 1940 Disney Film background vs Say Bobs Burger or Ren and Stimpy
So by not generalizing and giving examples, such as skilled labor getting laid off from a company after working there for 30 years, just so they can bring in 12 more unionized employees. Or negotiation to get rid of the IT Staff from a company, so the can bring in more unionized labors.
But then I am just giving Anecdotal evidence.
I have seen companies getting unionized. Where they had problems before, but after the unionization the problems didn't go away but they amplified, rises in Salary went mostly to Union Dues. Safe jobs became at risk. Any problems with the Union has to be spoken in hush tones, otherwise you are considered a Union Buster!
American Unions are not like German Unions, right now American Unions are a shady organization, who are running off an old mind set.
It is both.
There is a problem with the 737 Max 8, because it is putting the airplane in bad state. Such conditions shouldn't be the case. While a pilot manually can make split second decisions, the onboard computer suppose to do split microsecond decisions. This flaw is making the computer to make a bad decision.
Now that stated, you NEVER PUT FULL FAITH IN A COMPUTER. When there is a problem, you should know how to force override the computer in a moment and take over, once you feel uncomfortable about the computer decision.
My work environment which isn't as fast pace as flying an aircraft has downtime procedures, for nearly all the IT Functions, in case the software doesn't work. When the software doesn't work, there is an IT Problem that needs to be fixed, however the people we support, still need to do their job, and cannot excuse the computers being down for not doing their work.
The VPN is ad free, the browser isn't. I was happy with Opera Mobile for a while, until an upgrade put a "News" Screen that I couldn't disable.
This "News" Screen was populated with click-bait articles, which I would expect are full of Ad's that I am willing to bet Opera got some cut on the action.
I am actually surprised that Opera is still in the business. From its early days of being a fast and light browser which may had gained some traction if it were free to most users, and later versions which were Ad Supported, filled up a lot of your screen, imagine on a 640x480 screen having 1/4 of the screen filled with ads.
The problem is the problems of today are not the problems a hundred years ago, however, the Unions are structure roughly the same way.
100 years ago most communities were centered around one or two factories. People had limited transportation available to them, the idea of transporting from one town to the next one 10 miles away was a big deal. So you worked for the company, lived in company housing (which your rent came out of your pay), having to buy food at the company store. If you got injured and couldn't work, you have lost your job and your access to housing and the company store, which is a big part of the community you lived in. In short, the company owned you, and you were really one step above being a slave.
Today (and thanks to the effort of these unions of the past) The conditions are now much different, we have the ability to find work in different towns and cities, even go across states for commuting isn't unheard of. There is a social safety net where there are unemployment payments where you can pay you enough to keep your home for a while, where you can find another job.
However, Unions play on the idea that you are stuck to your job. Where today being stuck, just means, we don't want to risk getting another job. But It is a different environment. While today's economy and the workers need support in negotiating with the company, today's Unions are seeming more fixed on gaining a power base, then actually helping the employees with useful things like wage parity, health care, benefits.
For most people maxing everything is going to be a waste of money.
You may need to Max out on RAM, or get a Top video card, But maxing everything is just Luxary and bragging rights, and nearly every professional will not be fully utilizing everything, as every professional has their specialty and uses the computer differently.
I already use 32gigs on my laptop, for my servers I am happy with 128gigs.
Now why so much where we could had nearly the same type of work 20 years ago with 1/1000 of the resource?
While there is some bloat, there is the annoying factor of security being a big concern, Back 20 years ago, shared memory was common, no sandboxes, if you keep on moving your pointer values you will finally run into some other line of ram for an other system. Today we have sandboxes and virtualization, for added levels of protection, to make sure App 1 will not overwrite App 2.
Also I want to point out on How stupid it is to point out on the max cost of the product, when you go and select the top of everything in the customize bucket.
Most people won't need the max spec, but the system is designed to handle the max spec, for that small handful of people who need it.
For most Professional that 15k investment is probably better served with getting a 3k system every 5 years for 25 years.
This is assuming you are managing a project with a Start, Middle and an End.
While the Build Team gets all the credit, the maintenance teams, will often have a lot of sub projects that they need to work on to keep the project up to date, fix problems, and add things that are needed. Often this will require more projects, and many that don't need to be viable to everyone.
Besides the Slashdot hate on Windows. OS X, Linux and Windows when upgraded and properly maintained, are all rather secure, reliable and works well. Yes, Windows is heavy handed with the users, with forced upgrades, and Linux sometimes works like a hodgepodge of ideas, that got release after they had a clean compile.
But I haven't gotten BSOD, Kernel Panics, or the Gray screen of failure. In a while unless I am doing something really stupid anyways. Or I have failing hardware.